Detective Jimmy McNulty once said in The Wire, when referring to lives on the street versus the way politics interacts with those lives, "It just never connects." He was known to be a brilliant detective, but self-destructive, at the cost of those ...
If betting odds are any indication, then New Zealand will play England in the final of RWC 2011. The weekend’s results have caused a major shuffle at the New Zealand TAB. While Australia and South Africa remain as second and third favourites respec...
The Springboks received a healthy dose of confidence after winning their last Tri-Nations fixture against a weakened All Blacks in Port Elizabeth. Having shaken off the evident rust against Australia the week before, South Africa went back to what th...
The faithful will be ecstatic, the doubters unconvinced as the Springboks retained their record of never having lost to the All Blacks in Port Elizabeth on Saturday.
It was 41 years since Dawie de Villiers’s Springbok team smashed All Black drea...
The Wallabies don't often win in South Africa, but Durban must be their favourite city. Three of their only four away Tri-Nations victories against South Africa have been played at this venue. Fourteen-Nine. The Kings Park clash was a low-scoring, ti...
Butch James sounds alarm over endless grind.
Big bang theory? Every rugby player knows all about it, particularly the fly-half taking on the world single-handedly. One minute Butch James is steering South Africa to Test victories, the next he is b...
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There are concerns over Bryan Vodacom Habana’s pace after a Sasol/British Airways Bok training session in which he was chased down by the entire Wildeklawer Onions Griquas squad. Speculation is rife that after interference from n...
As the Tri-Nations is about to start and the World Cup holders will play the World Cup favourites, it is time to think about the World Cup: what it means, what it delivers and its impact.
I know there has been a huge debate on whether the All Blac...
So what have we learnt from Peter de Villiers’ tenure so far? Certainly there hasn’t been enough sustained evidence of the promised shimmering new expansive game plan in the three Tests thus far. That though, I believe can be attributed to the na...
